I suggest a campaign about ...

Prevent the closure of public libraries

Libraries offer computer access to the poor, give access to books to those unable to afford them, and provide education for all, regardless of social status.

They are inclusive of all, not just the 'white middle class'. They provide ways to learn about other cultures as well as our own, promoting understanding of foreign ways of life. They enable people to learn about subjects they may not have had the oppurtunity to study in the past. They provide a quiet place to study and read. They allow people to see the world in new ways.

Jeannie, I agree we need to fight. An interesting idea on facebook at the moment is to use the Manic's 'A design for life' (which has the opening line 'Libraries gave us power' to spearhead a national campaign.

I am concerned about the growing constraints on opportunities for lifelong learning and literacy, access to information, local history and free community space, if these disproportionate cuts to public libraries are imposed. They will create a social deficit and - in time, a consequent financial one - which will dwarf our current economic problems. We all continue to pay the same Council Tax therefore we should retain our existing library network. No-one voted for 500 or more library closures at the last general election.

I owe so much to the local library in the town where I grew up - access to a wide range of books, free loans, and the hushed seriousness amongst all that learning. I want others to have the same opportunity and start in life.

Even if you think you don't need libraries now, you probably will one day. Libraries are a rock and a safe space. They are your birthright by law. The plans to close libraries and cut back on the services they provide is symptomatic of the steady move to dismantle the fabric of a civilised society. Please fight for them

Libraries are not a luxury, they are absolutely essential for all of us - rich or poor, young or old - they give us learning, knowledge and culture. They are the very hallmark of a civilised society. We must prevent this mindless and nasty decimation of our beloved libraries. We owe it to our children, grandchildren and to future generations.

In the mid-19th century, when the provision of public libraries was being debated, the Tories were adamantly opposed to the idea. Why was that? The answer was simple, they well understood that books would give learning and knowledge to working class people, thereby making them harder to control and giving them ambitions beyond their lowly status in life. I would strongly suggest that this is a mindset which still lurks, barely hidden, in many hardline Tory minds.

Libraries are a key brick within the foundations of a civilised society. Everyone should have access to knowledge and power. If we lose our libraries, we are cutting off access to reading and learning to the poorest in our society. What sort of a society are we then?

Libraries are a key brick within the foundations of a civilised society. Everyone should have access to knowledge and power. If we lose our libraries, we are cutting off access to reading and learning to the poorest in our society. What sort of a society are we then?

Libraries are a key brick within the foundations of a civilised society. Everyone should have access to knowledge and power. If we lose our libraries, we are cutting off access to reading and learning to the poorest in our society. What sort of a society are we then?

Libraries and library staff make printed and electronic resources available to all comers, to those who know what they want and those who need guidance on relevant material, to the young, the old, the housebound (via volunteers). Without staff selecting, protecting, organising, promoting and advising on the stock they become repositories, important but not as useful for the people who have financed the buildings and the stock in the first place

for time immemorial civilized societies have developed extensive libraries for prestige, the storage and dissemination of acquired knowledge.It says a lot about a town if there is no library,let alone a country.